Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg; born Emanuel Swedberg on 29 January 1688; died 29 March 1772) was a Swedish scientist, philosopher, theologian, revelator, and mystic. He is best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell...
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth29 January 1688
CountrySweden
spiritual distance self
One's distance from Heaven is in proportion to the measure of one's self-love.
self heaven earth
The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.
spiritual self heaven
God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in the physical world. This was so that the spiritual part of us, which belongs in heaven, could be planted in the physical part the way a seed is planted in the ground.
self self-love world
Self-love and the love of the world constitute hell.
word
Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead.
charity desire others true useful
True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense
basis created human
The human race is the basis on which heaven is founded, is because man was last created, and that which is last created is the basis of all that precedes.
divide divine invariably perceive talked unable
I have often talked with angels on this subject, and they have invariably declared that in heaven they are unable to divide the Divine into three, because they know and perceive that the Divine is One and this One is in the Lord.
But by all this I am not deterred, for I have seen, I have heard, I have felt.
love spiritual angel
So far as the Angels are recipients of that spiritual heat and light they are loves and wisdoms, not loves and wisdoms for themselves, but from the Lord.
mean compassion suffering
Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for him in his suffering as he does for himself in his own.
punishment evil
He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.
truth
What is true is true, and what is false is false...
spirit hell lord
The Lord casts no one down in Hell, but the spirit casts himself hither.